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Definition of oppositional in English: oppositionaladjective ˌɒpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌɑpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n(ə)l 1Characterized by resistance or dissent. an oppositional stance to capitalism the suppression of oppositional critical thought Example sentencesExamples - In school, Jane would bully classmates, lie, steal, and exhibit oppositional behavior in the classroom.
- For Davies and his colleagues, nature and technology were only partly oppositional.
- One of the principle values of modernism was its genuinely oppositional relationship to the dominant, bourgeois culture.
- Studio films have scrapped most traces of oppositional sentiment, and reveled in general reverence for all the institutions of American capitalism.
- 'A Man Escaped' is typical of Bresson's work in creating highly emotional effects by juxtaposing seemingly oppositional images and motifs.
- It is likely that his oppositional defiant attitude will increase the risk, resulting in the need for secure accommodation.
- The avant-garde is to be understood neither as simply oppositional to dominant ideological structures nor as naively collusive with them.
- Those elements outside the effective dominant culture are described as either alternative or oppositional.
- But at the same time it is a sure way to put off the naturally oppositional adolescent who is getting directives from numerous adults.
- The internal coherence or unity of either gender, man or woman, requires both a stable and oppositional heterosexuality.
- 1.1 Relating to or denoting a group of opponents, especially in politics.
the largest oppositional party in parliament Example sentencesExamples - About 6,000 people from trade unions, peasants movements, left-wing political parties, and autonomous extra-parliamentary oppositional movements travelled to Chiapas.
- This is not your cue to go off on how the Democrats aren't being sufficiently oppositional.
- As public discontent over foreign policy and consecutive scandals racked public life, discrediting the moderate Ferry ministry, radical oppositional movements flared.
- Young, particularly oppositional, factions, are no 'nicer' in relation to the old social chauvinist parties than a little piglet is 'nicer' than an old swine.
- Oppositional parties and critics here have a political interest in trying to spread rumours and smears among a less-educated population.
- A dogmatic, oppositional council, led by Hatton, took hold.
- He described his understanding of a right-wing organization as "an open, not blindly oppositional one."
- There was a change of government in 1989, to an alliance of oppositional groups under Vishwanath P. Singh.
- Trotsky's arguments were defeated by non-argumentative means and he was unwilling to split the party by forming an oppositional bloc.
- To my mind, this kind of old-school oppositional politics seems unproductive, and limited at best.
Definition of oppositional in US English: oppositionaladjectiveˌɑpəˈzɪʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌäpəˈziSH(ə)n(ə)l 1Characterized by resistance or dissent. an oppositional stance to capitalism the suppression of oppositional critical thought Example sentencesExamples - For Davies and his colleagues, nature and technology were only partly oppositional.
- But at the same time it is a sure way to put off the naturally oppositional adolescent who is getting directives from numerous adults.
- In school, Jane would bully classmates, lie, steal, and exhibit oppositional behavior in the classroom.
- One of the principle values of modernism was its genuinely oppositional relationship to the dominant, bourgeois culture.
- Those elements outside the effective dominant culture are described as either alternative or oppositional.
- 'A Man Escaped' is typical of Bresson's work in creating highly emotional effects by juxtaposing seemingly oppositional images and motifs.
- The internal coherence or unity of either gender, man or woman, requires both a stable and oppositional heterosexuality.
- The avant-garde is to be understood neither as simply oppositional to dominant ideological structures nor as naively collusive with them.
- Studio films have scrapped most traces of oppositional sentiment, and reveled in general reverence for all the institutions of American capitalism.
- It is likely that his oppositional defiant attitude will increase the risk, resulting in the need for secure accommodation.
- 1.1 Relating to or denoting a group of opponents, especially in politics.
the largest oppositional party in parliament Example sentencesExamples - A dogmatic, oppositional council, led by Hatton, took hold.
- There was a change of government in 1989, to an alliance of oppositional groups under Vishwanath P. Singh.
- To my mind, this kind of old-school oppositional politics seems unproductive, and limited at best.
- About 6,000 people from trade unions, peasants movements, left-wing political parties, and autonomous extra-parliamentary oppositional movements travelled to Chiapas.
- He described his understanding of a right-wing organization as "an open, not blindly oppositional one."
- Young, particularly oppositional, factions, are no 'nicer' in relation to the old social chauvinist parties than a little piglet is 'nicer' than an old swine.
- Trotsky's arguments were defeated by non-argumentative means and he was unwilling to split the party by forming an oppositional bloc.
- Oppositional parties and critics here have a political interest in trying to spread rumours and smears among a less-educated population.
- As public discontent over foreign policy and consecutive scandals racked public life, discrediting the moderate Ferry ministry, radical oppositional movements flared.
- This is not your cue to go off on how the Democrats aren't being sufficiently oppositional.
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